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Red Flags Everywhere

 Could  properly enforced red flag laws limit both mass shooter events and suicide? In depth overview here: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/pass-and-enforce-red-flag-laws-now?s=r Shorter video from same writer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwgPT48edM The Arizona plan fact sheet: https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/safearizonaschoolsforweb_0.pdf Suicides are the biggest number in gun deaths in the United States. Red flag laws would help lower them likely in a dramatic number. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/mass-shootings-are-rare-firearm-suicides-are-much-more-common-and-kill-more-americans
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Christian Fear and Isolation

 " If we follow the fearful voices in the church today warning us about the evils and enemies that surround us, we’ll soon discover that we will never be safe enough. We can never separate far enough. We can never build a wall high enough. Somehow, the infection will always gets through. Rather than working tenaciously to separate ourselves from the world, instead we should follow the example of the hemorrhaging women who tenaciously worked to get closer to Jesus. Ultimately, it’s not our isolation from non-Christians that makes us pure, but our intimate connection to Christ himself." Skye Jethani From With God Daily  https://www.skyejethani.com/
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A Double Standard

 A Double Standard BY FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Do you blame me that I loved him? If when standing all alone I cried for bread a careless world Pressed to my lips a stone. Do you blame me that I loved him, That my heart beat glad and free, When he told me in the sweetest tones He loved but only me? Can you blame me that I did not see Beneath his burning kiss The serpent’s wiles, nor even hear The deadly adder hiss? Can you blame me that my heart grew cold That the tempted, tempter turned; When he was feted and caressed And I was coldly spurned? Would you blame him, when you draw from me Your dainty robes aside, If he with gilded baits should claim Your fairest as his bride? Would you blame the world if it should press On him a civic crown; And see me struggling in the depth Then harshly press me down? Crime has no sex and yet to-day I wear the brand of shame; Whilst he amid the gay and proud Still bears an honored name. Can you blame me if I’ve learned to think Your hate of vice...
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What Should Pro Life Law Be?

 Best article I've read on this point. On the decision to end a pregnancy threatening the mother's life, my readings in ethics from both philosophy and theology never thought the child should take precedence over the mother's life. I'm not sure where that thought originates from but it stands against two thousand years of ethical thought. https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/for-abortion-abolition-against-abortion
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Isolationists Make Odd Bedfellows

 418-8 The eight: Cori Bush (D-Mo.) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) Chip Roy (R-Texas)   https://thehill.com/news/house/3469582-four-republicans-four-democrats-vote-no-on-bill-urging-biden-to-confiscate-assets-from-sanctioned-oligarchs/
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Sub Headings are my favorites

  Found here https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-check-is-bill-gates-purchasing?s=r
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What Do Americans Believe About Abortion?

 It's complicated. First a more in depth nuanced approach. https://news.nd.edu/assets/395804/how_americans_understand_abortion_final_7_15_20.pdf Then a bunch of general surveys. Surveys tend to be all over the place and vary by how questions are asked and what respondents know about abortion legality. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21183488/abortion.pdf https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Attitudes-About-Abortion.pdf?x91208 Recent Texas polling: https://uh.edu/hobby/txtrends/txtrends2021_report1.pdf
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Wither Abortion

 Guttmacher shows around a 10% drop in the first year after Roe is overturned. https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2019/08/predicted-changes-abortion-access-and-incidence-post-roe-world A map in the bottom half of this story shows likely legal status in states. https://www.aol.com/news/roe-v-wade-being-overturned-165450600.html After the Texas law: https://sites.utexas.edu/txpep/files/2022/03/TxPEP-out-of-state-SB8.pdf
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War in the First Person

Imagine being a Ukrainian family forced to host Russian soldiers. What would you do and say to them? " The Horbonoses’ home, a house they had been building for 30 years, was completely destroyed; their library burned for two days before collapsing into rubble. When Irina couldn’t take it anymore, she would begin to cry and scream at the soldiers in the darkness of the cellar: “We had everything! What are you doing here?” The Russians would only sit in the dark, silent. "One morning, she took them with her to gather wild herbs for tea. As they walked through what little was left of the Horbonoses’ lives, the soldiers apologized for all the destruction they had brought. It would be so much better, one said, if they could someday visit as guests. Sergey was livid. “You’ve come here to kill me and destroy my home,” he said, “and we are meant to be friends? We can only be enemies.” The Russians again apologized, and soon all of them began to say that the war was senseless. They ev...
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